If Stevie put out a tribute cd for her mom consisting of covers...what are the songs?
 

I would love to see her cover...
At Last(Etta)
This Bitter Earth(Dinah Washington)
Wheels (Lone Justice)
Lady Sings the Blues (Billie Holiday)
The First Cut is the Deepest (RS)
If You're Only Lonely
Sky Blue & Black (Jackson Browne)

My dads favorite tune is "At Last"which her moms music era is the same as my mom and dads is.Stevie can get an orchestra and do covers of those old classic numbers.I would love it.

Lone Justice! Great to meet someone else who knows/likes them. This is a great choice of song and I could really imagine Stevie singing it.

Good call on the Jackson Browne track too. I mentioned Stevie doing These Days in another thread.

Of course if they're songs that have a direct link to her mother they may all be older songs, if the Enquirer is to be believed at all of course! :nod:

As I've mentioned before, Stevie could knock Cat Stevens's "Wild World" out of the park. I know the lyrics are about a romance, but they seem to fit a daughter leaving home just as well.


- Jake

None!!!! Stevie has a Volt full of untouched gems, i would rather listen to Stevie's penned songs, than covers any day..:sorry: tho id still buy it anyway:D

It won't be covers. She's apparently composing a new album

Wasn't there a song mentioned by Barbara called "Angels" that Stevie recorded a demo of and gave to her, and she said it was one of her favorites. I imagine that would be on it.

^^ Touched By An Angel
Im thrilled to read that Stevie has penned 10/15 new songs, tho im sure TBAA will be on this Tribute Album as well..

Has she penned songs or just lyrics?

Hey! I'm a big Lone Justice/Maria McKee fan too. But I'd rather have Stevie sing original songs. Unfortunately those songs will probably be remakes of Landslide and Silver Springs -- just what we needed!:eek:

:shrug: not sure, probably safe to say lyrics i guess.. tho someone mentioned 10 new songs earlier:confused:lol

If the Enquirer is to be believed at all, it says she's "hoping to write 10 to 15 new songs" and that she's "composing" the album.

Not that they're correct, but if they were, that would mean brand-new, Stevie Nicks-penned songs, not covers or demos (and that she hasn't created them yet).

Of course, we all know how these things progress (or don't)...plans she has made can change radically as they move forward. Her own comments about future projects have not been that reliable either...and grief can be an exhausting process that saps your energy and make you wonder why you're bothering with anything at all.

Great pick! I would love hear her sing that song. It's completely in her style range. The lyrics, simple but impactful, could have been written by her.

WILD WORLD

Now that I've lost everything to you
You say you want to start something new
And it's breaking my heart you're leaving
Baby I'm grieving

But if you want to leave, take good care
Hope you have a lot of nice things to wear
Then, a lot a of nice things turn bad out there

Ooh, baby baby it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Ooh, baby baby it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl

You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do
And it's breaking my heart in two
'Cause I never want to see you sad girl
Don't be a bad girl

But if you want to leave, take good care
Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
Just remember there's a lot bad, and beware

Ooh, baby baby it's a wild world...

Hurrah! I love Maria's first 2 albums. Her latermaterial is good too but those first two are something else. Brilliant.

I know we are going off topic, but...

I agree with you. I've been lucky to see her four times, up close, in cool small venues in Portland, OR. Sadly the first time I saw her (You Gotta Sin to Get Saved - a great album) she was really sick, and could only get through about five songs. She apologized, but, understandably, it was a very short show.

One of my favorite singers is James Morrison - his recent album features a lot of songs about the loss of his father. They're great because they're not sad songs -

One of my favorites is called In My Dreams (haha). It has a great Motown 70's funky feel to it. I've often thought about Stevie singing James' songs, since his writing style would fit her voice so very well.

James Morrison- In My Dreams, Lyrics



Since you’ve gone
Nothing seems to fit no more
Nothing’s as it was before

Everyday
Is a battle that I just can’t win
I know I won’t see you again

But I keep waiting for the night
I close my eyes and hope you’ll find me sleeping
Cause in my dreams, We can spend a little time just talking
In my dreams, We are side by side just walking

Oh well the feelings that we used to know
The places we used to go
Are all still there, In my dreams
On the front of the crossbar of your bike
We can go any place, anywhere you like
In my dreams
And as hard as it seems....
Till then I’ll wait to see you again
In my dreams

Don’t you wake me up
I don’t wanna go nowhere
I could wait here for a zillion years

You’re gone too soon
I know I’ll never get the chance
To say the things I never said

But I keep waiting for the night
I close my eyes and hope you’ll find me sleeping
Cause in my dreams, We can spend a little time together
In my dreams, You can live a little longer

Oh well the feelings that we used to know
The places we used to go
Are all still there, In my dreams
On the front of the crossbar of your bike
We can go any place, anywhere you like
In my dreams

I hope some day this pain I feel will fade...

Till then I’ll wait to see you again in my dreams
Yes I’ll wait, I’ll wait to see you again in my dreams
I’ll see you again in my dreams

Well I don’t know where and I don’t know when
But I know I’ll see your face again

In my dreams...

One of my faves, Kate Bush, who usually takes five or six years to put an album together has just created and released one in less than a year. It's a piano-driven, elegiac and gorgeous album full of ghosts and stories of loss and being reunited after death.

She lost her father recently, which may have fed into the lyrics for the closing song:


Among Angels

Only you can do something about it.
There's no-one there, my friend, any better.
I might know what you mean when you say you fall apart.
Aren't we all the same? In and out of doubt.

I can see angels standing around you.
They shimmer like mirrors in Summer.
But you don't know it.

And they will carry you o'er the walls.
If you need us, just call.
Rest your weary world in their hands.
Lay your broken laugh at their feet.
I can see angels around you.
They shimmer like mirrors in Summer.
There's someone who's loved you forever but you don't know it.
You might feel it and just not show it.

Oh ok well that makes sense duh ok never mind lol

Knowing how prolific a writer Stevie is, and that her diary entries become her songs, I would assume she has volumes she has written over the years about her mother and all they have gone through together.

Perhaps she will pull some of those ideas and finalize them. That's my thinking. I could see her throw in a song or two that mom liked, def something from Barb's era.

Just a note: Stevie's mother was a fantastic person, so supportive and a real "roll-with-the-punches" kind of woman. It's hard to be a parent to any child, but to watch a daughter go through so much in her life, to be there for better or worse, to love and accept all, is amazing and takes a very special, strong woman. I can only imagine how devastating this is to Stevie, so whatever form this tribute takes will be a form of healing for her. Hugs to Stevie on this greatest of losses. With respect, we are as close or as far away as you need us to be.

Beautiful song.

I love End Of The World by Skeeter Davis.She was great.

I love the idea of stevie singing Wild World by Cat Stevens and End of the World by Skeeter...YUM!:D

Well, I don't know about cover songs... if she were to do that I hope she would choose some of her mother's favorite songs (not sure what those are exactly).

But, if she were to write new material, I would love something with a Blue Lamp reference... since the Blue Lamp is tied to her mother... And as we all know how Stevie and Lindsey are into cycles and recycling... LOL! Or at least some new updated photos of her with the famous Blue Lamp to go with the new album....

It's the lamp that I carry from my mother's home...
You're gonna have to run over me because we're not going without the lamp! LOL!